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Tuesday, august 21, 2012 volume 112, issue 003

Inside Coverage

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From all corners of the world

A face worth remembering

Lincoln hip hop artist Scru Face Jean performs at the Spigot on Dec. 17, 2010. Jean, one of the city’s best-known rappers, will open a Bourbon Theatre show Wednesday night for touring emcee Kid Ink.

dry spell

UNL department shuffles, seeking foreign students

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“Avengers” wins with captivating Black Widow

NU players to watch this season DN staffers offer Huskers you can’t miss in 2012

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UNL students battle first day jitters First day of classes presents obstacles, new experiences for variety of students

Smashing superhero stereotypes

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The Broyhill Fountain sits empty outside the Nebraska Union Monday evening, a white line marking the usual water level. The summer’s drought has led Lincoln to enact mandatory water restrictions, which prohibit filling fountains like this one.

ongoing drought forces UNL to restrict water usage on campus story and photo by dan holtmeyer

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he summer’s drought that made headlines and withered crops across the country has also left its mark on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

The Broyhill Fountain in front of the Nebraska Union sits drained after mandatory restrictions in Lincoln’s residential and public water use were enacted earlier this month. Fields of grass are baked with swaths of brown.

Leaves, burnt to a crisp, drop from trees as if fall came early.

The reason lies about 40 miles to the north of town: The Platte River, which joins the Missouri River near Omaha, is almost completely dry. Its typical sandbars now reach from bank to bank. “(The river’s) following the path of 1955,” said Jerry Obrist, Lincoln’s chief engineer of water works, referring to the last time the U.S. experienced a drought as powerful and widespread as this one. He spoke at a press conference Monday afternoon at City

Hall.

“There’s not enough water to recharge our aquifer,” Obrist said.

“It’s half gone.”

City-wide, officials in Lincoln have enacted mandatory outdoor water-use restrictions, something they haven’t done since 2002.

In response, UNL has begun trimming its water use, with the union fountain as just one prominent example.

“We’ve restricted and cut back our watering on both campuses,” said Jeff Culbertson, landscape manager for East Campus.

Some on-campus trees have already begun losing their leaves and entire fields lie dormant, Culbertson added. As of yet, there’s no sign of permanent damage.

“It would have to last longer than it has so far,” Culbertson said. “If things cool off a bit and we get some moisture this fall ... the plants will rebound.”

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UNL’SWATER WATER PLAN PLAN UNL’S Phase I of UNL Landscape Services Irrigation Management Plan: Phase I of UNL Landscape Services Irrigation Management Plan: Reduce Irrigation by 15 percent Reduce Irrigation by 15 percent

• Automatic irrigation systems cut from daily watering to • Automatic irrigation systems cut from daily watering to three times weekly three times weekly • Some areas no longer receive water • •Some areas no longer receive water Manual watering, typically performed during work hours, • Manual ends bywatering, 1 p.m. typically performed during work hours, ends by 1 p.m.still watered as necessary • Trees, shrubs • Trees, shrubs still watered as necessary

91% of Nebraska in extreme droughtin 91% of Nebraska extreme drought

51% of United States in moderate drought, 51% of United States in nearly double the area moderate drought, covered in August nearly double the2011 area

covered in August 2011 SOURCE: US DROUGHT MONITOR

Kyli Rood has the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in her genes.

Both of the freshman psychology major ’s parents went to the university, and she said she couldn’t wait to become a part of the family tradition.

But Rood is from Sidney, Neb., a town of about 6,000 people. That’s less than one-fourth of UNL’s enrollment.

“I’m scared I’ll be overwhelmed by the amount of people,” she said, but attending events like Big Red Welcome calmed some of her fears.

Campus buzzed Monday with anticipation as freshmen, many from smaller communities like Rood’s, began their first day of college classes.

“I see a bunch of them just looking around, looking puzzled,” said Seth Thacker-Lynn, a senior advertising major.

New Student Enrollment stationed guides around campus to hand out maps and help students like the ones Thacker-Lynn witnessed. Jodi Holt, director of recruitment for the College of Arts and Sciences, said a lot of students asked how to get to East Campus. Others asked for help to differentiate between halls with similar names, like Andrews, Andersen and Avery.

The faculty and students set up outside the Nebraska Union and at 14th and Vine Streets from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Holt recommended to scope out campus early and not be afraid to talk to others.

“Take advantage of the community around you,” she said.

International students, like freshman psychology major Lin Shan, have more than just getting around and finding friends on their mind. They’ll be adjusting to an entirely new culture.

Shan moved to Lincoln from Yichang, China.

“I want to see what’s different between Chinese and American classes,” she said.

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SOURCE: US DROUGHT MONITOR

Kebbel to lead mobile device research ‘Communication is key to the future,’ the former dean says conor dunn dn

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be leading mobile communication research in the Big Ten this semester, according to Gary Kebbel, a professor of journalism. And after leaving his position as dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, Kebbel will be

spearheading the project.

Kebbel resigned after two years as the dean of CoJMC last spring.

His resignation followed a controversial proposal by Kebbel to move some advanced broadcasting classes to East Campus last February. The proposal was met with resistance from some students and faculty, but Kebbel said he was glad they were expressing their opinions.

“People were exercising their First Amendment rights to petition in a responsible and reasonable way,” he said.

In his new role, Kebbel leads a university-wide initiative to research mobile media. Kebbel will be paid

costs and no building of less for his new posiits own, the center is still tion. But Kebbel said he in the infant stages of is happy to have the development. For now, freedom to research how the center is run out of mobile media, which has Kebbel’s third floor ofcaptured his interest, fice in Andersen Hall. could benefit UNL’s colIts primary purpose leges. is to give grants to pro“Communication is fessors or students who the tool of the future,” want to research the Kebbel said. “The key use of mobile devices to mobile devices is that kebbel to spread news, inforthey bridge every digital mation and commerce, divide we can think of: Kebbel said. The center young and old, rich and will also help other mobile projpoor, rural and urban.” ects apart from UNL as long as the Kebbel calls his project the Center for Mobile Media. With no overhead knowledge gained is publicly shared.

Kebbel was inspired to expand mobile media after witnessing how people in the poorest areas of Africa used mobile devices for all of their communication needs. Mobile connectivity has helped those who have difficulty getting high-speed broadband, he said.

“If you can’t communicate with a mobile device,” Kebbel said, “you’re going to be a second-class citizen.”

In the next few years, mobile connectivity is expected to gain 3 billion users, said Matthew Waite, a professor of journalism who worked with Kebbel to create the nation’s

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campus briefs

Each first day is a little bit different. Those butterflies never really go away.”

university to launch rural futures institute

The University of Nebraska will launch a Rural Futures Institute at the end of September to encourage sustainability partnerships across the state.

The university launched two grant programs for the institute this month. The grants will be focused on teaching, research and engagement and will aim to address “critical challenges and opportunities facing rural Nebraska and the Great Plains,” according to a university press release. Only NU staff and faculty may apply for the first round of grants, but student participation in the institute is encouraged.

Both types of grants will have deadlines in October. For more information, visit www.ruralfutures.nebraska.edu/grants or www.talkruralfutures.org.

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political science grad student

But for some students, the start of another semester is nothing new. John Peterson, a graduate student studying political science, has seen his fair share of beginnings.

“It’s my 21st first day of classes,” Peterson said.

Peterson came to UNL from Northern Illinois University, and he said he’s noticed some differences.

“The student population is different, a little bit more ambitious,” Peterson said.

And with the abundance of Husker shirts all around campus, he said it’s easy to see there’s a lot of pride in Lincoln.

“Each first day is a little bit different,” Peterson said. “Those butterflies never really go away.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

university joins tropical studies organization KAT BUCHANAN | DN

Freshmen Kimberli Hernandez, a general studies major, and Esmeralda Vasquez, a pre-med general studies major, laugh outside the Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center Monday evening at the tail end of their first day of classes.

UNL refines education abroad programs Daniel Wheaton DN In order to meet University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman’s enrollment goal of 30,000 students by 2017, the university enacted changes to encourage international student enrollment.

This summer, Academic Affairs changed the structure and functions of International Affairs to make UNL a more globalized and marketable campus for international students.

David Wilson, UNL senior international officer, has led the effort to make UNL more attractive to international students. The changes include new staff members, a new International Affairs website and rebranding Study Abroad as Education Abroad.

“A 21st-century campus ought to reflect the world,” Wilson said. “We hope to get more UNL students overseas and also to bring as many international students as we can to UNL.” The International Student and Scholar Office has moved to Seaton Hall. There, international students can complete all of the necessary paperwork to study in the U.S., Wilson said. Beyond interdepartmental communication, the office will also provide liaisons with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for students wishing to remain in the country.

“We want to increase the numbers of international undergraduate students,” Wilson said. “When we increase those numbers, we want to be able to better serve these students.”

changes to international affairs • A new International Affairs website at international.unl.edu • International Student and Scholar office has moved to Seaton Hall • Study Abroad is now Education Abroad • International programming is now under Student Affairs • Increased recruitment for highly qualified international students Wilson said that more international students would add value to education at UNL by adding more diverse voices to classes.

Tom McHale, a senior biochemistry and microbiology major, said he hopes an increase in international students will better the UNL community.

“I think it is really important to make global friends in Lincoln,” McHale said.

Last spring, McHale traveled to Botswana, where he joined an organization that promoted public health.

The experience strengthened his desire to research disease.

“Growing up in Nebraska, you are sheltered from many important issues,” McHale said. “It made me reassess what is important.”

new app for gameday parking

Football fans searching for parking at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Michigan, Purdue University and Michigan State University will no longer be forced to drive around in circles. Last Monday, GameDay Parking launched the first four of its iPhone apps designed to help fans find unreserved parking around the stadiums on gamedays. The apps list unreserved parking by location and cost and provide directions to parking spots.

GameDay Parking plans to expand to other campuses in the future. For more information visit http://www.gamedayparkingapps.com.

Two Fulbright scholars to teach in Germany

kebbel: from 1 first drone journalism lab.

Nebraska lends itself to mobile media development, Waite said, because of its rural geography. It’s more effective to put up a tower with a mobile signal than to dig a hole and fill it with broadband wire, he said.

Kebbel said mobile media is a broad topic with many expansion opportunities.

“I think this idea is so big and so new that there’s no right or wrong way to do this yet,” Kebbel said. “Working on mobile media is new enough that any individual can still have an impact.”

Although Kebbel has been working alone in the center’s preliminary stage, any student or faculty member who is interested in mobile media can get involved with the initiative at UNL. CoJMC also turned an old photography lab in its basement into a mobile media collaboration lab where students can use the drone technology Kebbel and Waite created.

Kebbel is currently researching which colleges on UNL’s campus will benefit most from mobile media.

He said each of the colleges are doing unique things that can be enhanced through collaboration with mobile media. He is also planning on creating a mobile publishing class for the spring semester, which will serve as a distance class where students can work at their own pace with their mobile devices.

“UNL has a great opportunity to stand out and say we recognize the communication necessities of the future,” Kebbel said. news@ dailynebraskan.com

Without the information he received from International Affairs, McHale said he wouldn’t have found the group he joined in Botswana. The changes in the program will make it easier for students to get information they need to find global opportunities, Wilson said.

“All of this has me jazzed,” Wilson said.

Wilson said the changes were inspired by people who went out of their way to assist international students. For example, he said, Information Services has created bilingual information sheets in order to solve recurring problems with Chinese software. Wilson aims to take that vision and expand it across the entire campus.

Additionally, the changes aim to increase numbers of students studying abroad. The Education Abroad program has a new name to emphasize the intent of the program, according to the press release.

“We want to bring the world here, and we want to bring UNL to the world,” Wilson said.

Last summer, students who went to China on an education abroad trip met with incoming international students who were headed to UNL. The meet-up fostered friendships between American and Chinese students, Wilson said.

“When those students came to UNL, they were greeted at the airport and taken to Walmart,” Wilson said.

Students who have gone on education abroad trips are looking forward to the changes as well. Samantha Marcoux, a junior international affairs major, spent a semester in South Korea. “(International Affairs was) really helpful getting everything organized,” Marcoux said. “When I spoke to students from other universities, they weren’t helped how I was.”

Marcoux said UNL adequately prepared her for her trip. The university provided advice about finances, credit transfers and also provided emotional support. She said she hopes increased international student enrollment will help inspire others to educate abroad.

“When you are half a world away, you discover who you are,” she said. news@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced Monday it will join a consortium of 60 universities and research institutes that provides international opportunities for its faculty, students and research, according to a press release.

The university is the newest member of the Organization for Tropical Studies, which was founded in 1963 and focuses on research and education in ecology, botany, entomology, international medicine and public health, emphasizing emerging issues of tropical regions.

More than 400 university students and professionals each year partake in the organization’s hands-on, summer and semester-long courses taught by member institution faculty and local scientists, according to the press release.

Greg Snow, associate dean for research in the UNL College of Arts and Sciences, said the new membership “broadens the range of educational and research opportunities for our undergraduate and graduate students in many emerging cross-cultural and interdisciplinary topics and adds an important element to the internationalization of our curriculum and research.”

Ryan Kopelke DN Fulbright scholars and University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduates Kaylee Barber and Brian Rentfro will soon leave the country to spend 10 months in Germany, and they’re both a little nervous. But at least they’ll have each other.

“On a study abroad trip you have the opportunity to make new friends, (but) I don’t know if I’ll have that ability as a teacher, so it’s nice having a friend only three hours away,” Rentfro said.

The two are among nine Fulbright recipients from UNL in 2012.

They have known each other for years in the university’s German program, and they’ve traveled together with the Deutsch in Deutschland program, spending seven months with a host family in Berlin to help improve cultural and linguistic proficiency.

Barber said her familiarity with Germany will make the trip easier.

“I’m a little anxious because it is a new city,” Barber said. “Since I have lived in Germany, (I’m) not as nervous. I know the culture and the language already.”

For Rentfro, the preparations have gotten on the nerves of many of his friends and family as he spent a majority of the summer hunting for apartments in Southern Berlin, where he will be teaching at Walter Gropius, a school geared toward education in mathematics and English as a second language.

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Brian Rentfro, a UNL graduate and Fulbright Scholar, is preparing for 10 months in Germany. It’ll be Rentfro’s second trip there.

Fulbright English teaching assistant at the Annen-Mittelschule in Chemnitz, Aside from the exhaustive preparations made applying for the program, Fulbright students must also take care of the necessities required of living in another country alone.

“When you are going to stay this long in a country, you have to register with the government,” Rentfro said. “That’s in the progress now. I still have to open a German bank account so that I can get paid and move the rest of my stuff to storage. That’s

fun.”

While in Germany, the two Fulbright students will assist the local English professors, acting as experts on American culture and taking on day-to-day duties similar to those of a restricted student teacher.

“You are not allowed to grade anything,” Rentfro said. “When I had a Praktikum (internship) here, I student-taught full time, and now I’m going back to a role where I am more supplemental.”

Barber and Rentfro say they have high hopes for personal growth over

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Kaylee Barber, another UNL graduate and Fulbright Scholar, will be traveling with Rentfro. It will be her second trip too. the next 10 months. Barber hopes to learn whether teaching middle school students is her calling. Rentfro hopes to gain more cultural fluency and become better acquainted with German dialects before he enrolls in a German literature and language education dual masters program in 2013.

“If anyone wants to hand out a professorship in 2015, that would be appreciated,” he said.

The trip was once a pipe dream and an avalanche of applications and forms, they said. And it’s about

to become a reality. The two students are taking the opportunity to reflect. Rentfro recalled the moment he found out he’d been accepted to the program.

“I was speechless and struck (with) disbelief,” Rentfro said. “I was student teaching at Lincoln Southwest when it happened, just sitting in a teachers’ lounge, and I got the confirmation email, yelling, ‘There is no way I got this,’ over and over again.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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Sororities recruit desired quota Panhellenic Council celebrates large recruitment, looks to the year ahead Elias Youngquist DN After a busy, tiresome week, the local chapter of the National Panhellenic Conference finally heard the end result of their hard work at the semester ’s first meeting.

“OK, I’m gonna gush, recruitment went so well,” said Laura

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Collins, a senior secondary education and social sciences major. “Except for one woman, every single chapter hit quota.

I’m really happy.”

Out of the 801 women who entered recruitment, 512 joined the Greek system. According to Collins, this filled all but one sorority’s quota as recommended by their national organizations.

The spring semester average GPA of UNL sorority members was also announced: 3.4. Onethird of the sorority members placed above a 3.75, and according to Linda Schwartzkopf, direc-

tor of Greek Affairs, the average sorority members’ GPA is 30 percent higher than that of the average college female.

Panhellenic executives also discussed numerous upcoming events.

Rick Daniels, leadership advisor for the Greek community at the University of WisconsinWhitewater, will give his talk “OMG, I’m a student leader!” at 5 p.m. on Aug. 23 in the Nebraska Union Ballroom. The Greek community is sponsoring the talk, which is geared toward helping new freshmen and sophomore student leaders deal with stress and time management.

An hour after Daniels’ first presentation, he will be speaking for Greek students at 6:30 p.m.

The talk focuses on the history of stepping and strolling in multicultural Greek communities.

“It’s really cool; you can see all the energy and effort that goes into it,” said Olivia Rauschenbach, a senior pre-med biology major and Panhellenic president.

On Aug. 24, the Multicultural Greek students will hold the Multicultural Greek stroll-off in the Nebraska Union Plaza at 5 p.m.

UNL sororities will host the Big Fat Greek Dance Party on Sept. 7 at 9 p.m. in the Bourbon Theater. Two dollars from every T-shirt sold will go to Huskers Fighting Hunger. news@ dailynebraskan.com

drought: from 1 If not, and the summer’s dryness continues through the fall, Culbertson said, “then we’ll be talking about a historic drought.”

The university has a fourphase water management plan to deal with water restrictions, which cuts back more and more usage as needed if water levels continue dropping. Typically, automatic water systems run between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m., and other areas are watered manually during day hours, according to the UNL Landscape Services Irrigation Management Plan.

Because of the drought, UNL is currently in Phase I of that plan, Culbertson said, which means Landscape Services trims its irrigation by 15 percent.

Some areas of campus no longer receive regular irrigation, manual watering will end by 1 p.m., and automatic irrigation systems and other water schedules will be limited to three times weekly on select days. Trees and shrubs only receive water as necessary, according to the plan.

Unfortunately for anything that grows, the drought shows no sign of slowing down. More than 90 percent of Nebraska is in extreme drought, with a strip 300 miles long of exceptional drought — the most severe level — in the state’s western half.

Drought officials categorize droughts by several indicators, including river levels, water tables and crop conditions. Extreme drought can cause major crop losses, widespread water restrictions or shortages, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor in UNL’s Nation-

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Water restrictions in Lincoln have forced UNL to cut universitywide water usage by 15 percent. More than 90 percent of Nebraska is in extreme drought, according to the UNL Drought Monitor. al Drought Mitigation Center.

“We’ve seen the drought progressively getting worse,” said Brian Fuchs, a climatologist at the center, where 16 scientists and staff provide a weekly map of the drought’s extent for the entire U.S.

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“About the only thing that has saved us in the past few weeks is the temperatures have finally cooled off,” he added, referring to recent highs sometimes 20 degrees cooler than much of the past two months.

But there still isn’t enough water falling from the sky, and the state is forecast to remain dry into November, Fuchs said.

For the university’s part, irrigation can fall to 10 percent of regular use under the most severe phase of the management plan.

Other than that, most other university water use is for bathrooms, laboratories and the power plants on the west side of City Campus, said Clark deVries, director of Utility Services.

“We reduce it where we can,” he said, but beyond watering plants less, there aren’t many places left to cut. The power plants need a set amount of water, for example, for their boilers and water chillers.

While most of the area’s water goes to agriculture, students and other UNL residents can still help conservation efforts, Fuchs said.

“You can always keep conservation in the forefront of your mind,” he said, suggesting taking shorter showers and cutting down on faucet use in bathrooms and kitchens. “The drought’s far from over.” news@ dailynebraskan.com

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HUSKERS HIT THE BOOKS ABROAD HUSKERS HIT THE BOOKS ABROAD

The number of University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who studied abroad in 2011-2012 increased 17 percent from the 2010-2011 academic year, according to data provided by the Education Abroad Office.

Those students, all 788, touched down in countries including France, China, Benin and Kyrgyzstan.

Acting Education Abroad Director Rebecca Luhrs credited the increase to the availability of scholarships for education abroad students and the growing perception among students that the experience abroad will help them in the job market. “It has become something almost necessary to put on a resume in order to stand out,” she said.

MOST POPULAR EDUCATION ABROAD TERM

2010-2011 Summer: 404 2011-2012 Summer: 528

UNL STUDENTS THAT STUDIED ABROAD

2010-2011: 673 2011-2012: 788

17% INCREASE

MOST POPULAR EDUCATION ABROAD COUNTRIES IN 2011-2012 YEAR

OFF-THE-BEATEN PATH EDUCATION ABROAD DESTINATIONS

France: 80 Spain: 106 Germany: 29 China: 62 United Kingdom: 100 Italy: 53 Costa Rica: 44

Tanzania: 1 Kyrgyzstan: 10 Morocco: 1 Benin: 4 Madagascar: 2 Indonesia: 1

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above: Pictured in an in-camera double exposure, construction outside of the Nebraska Union on Monday forced students and faculty to take numerous detours during the first day of classes. top right: Seniors Emily Shaw, a dental hygiene major, and Brittany Andrews, a secondary education major, run toward Shaw’s car after spotting a UNL Parking & Transit Services employee who they assumed was writing a ticket for her car. Shaw was not ticketed.

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University should be first to follow water restrictions It seems the drought may also be drying up common sense at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Facing the worst drought in more than 50 years, the city of Lincoln enacted water-use restrictions August 9. City officials urged residents to cut use before the aquifer’s water supply depleted much more.

Lincoln residents responded well and water use dropped off after the restrictions went in place.

Unfortunately, officials at the university aren’t taking the recommendation to heart.

In a weak effort to cut its water use, UNL stopped only 15 percent of its irrigation. However, this doesn’t go far enough.

In an interview with the Daily Nebraskan, university officials said they would slowly scale back water use until they reach their limit of 90 percent. But this means significant cuts in water use can still be made.

The Daily Nebraskan questions the wisdom of an institution of higher learning – especially one with a strong agriculture background – in only cutting 15 percent of its irrigation during a historic drought.

If officials at the university are concerned with keeping up appearances, they should consider the message they’re sending with a lax approach to water management.

The Greek houses also need to evaluate their water use and what type of message they are sending. Sure, a green yard is attractive for potential members, but it’s reckless considering the drought we are facing.

The Greek houses and university need to begin cutting back as much as they can. If the university can handle scaling back 90 percent of its water use, then why isn’t it already?

The university has a rich agriculture background with the reputation to back it up. It shouldn’t be taking lessons from the student newspaper on how to treat the land.

It’s time for UNL and its Greek system to set an example and be proud of their yellow yards.

It’s time to turn off the sprinklers.

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veryone deserves equal access and fair opportunities to financial support and housing. If passed, the “Fairness Amendment” could make that possible. It would make it illegal to discriminate against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in employment, housing and public accommodations in Lincoln. With politics and religion involved nothing is ever simple, even if the humanitarian response is obvious.

Opponents of the Fairness Amendment include the Nebraska Family Council and Family First. The NFC’s Spring 2012 newsletter proclaims that their free speech and religious freedom is at risk.

Why? Omaha’s version of the amendment has already passed. That means the law requires employers, businesses and landlords to ignore sexual orientation and gender identification when considering whether to sell to, rent to, fire or hire a person. So now these religious groups are up in arms, fighting for the right to avoid people who are different from them.

According to them, “religious freedom” and “free speech” is the same as open discrimination. By petitioning the amendment, they reveal themselves to be hateful and intolerant.

If I were the best candidate for a job, I believe I should be offered that job regardless of what, if any, gender I identify as. If I could afford to rent an apartment, I should be able to sign the contract regardless of who shares my bed.

Whether you think being LGBT is a choice, a sin or whatever isn’t applicable to this issue.

Lincoln’s city charter declares that equal opportunity is assured “regardless of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” That covers both what you are born with and what you choose.

VALERIE KUTCHKO Being gay or transgender should be no different. Like religion, it’s personal and doesn’t impact how a business transaction is carried out. You don’t refuse to employ someone because they are Baptist or Buddhists, so why should sexuality be any more relevant?

Unfortunately, Lincoln people who identify as or are perceived to be LGBT will have to wait a long time until their rights will be protected. Along with the religious opposition, the unwieldy political process is taking its toll.

Last May, Mayor Chris Beutler suggested that the ordinance be replaced by a similar amendment to the city charter. The public would now vote on the amendment. The next public ballot is in November, but the amendment won’t be going on the ballot. Mayor Beutler says it may be a year or more until it will be up for voting.

Putting off the vote is a big mistake. I don’t know why they’re holding off. Maybe it is because of the elections in November. Perhaps they are waiting for the political upper hand or the “perfect moment.” Their excuse is not the point, though.

What matters more than the vote is that in the year 2012, we still haven’t learned how to

tolerate and respect people different from ourselves.

There are people in Lincoln who are at risk of being fired or refused housing based on a personal opinion. As a city, a country, and especially as a culture, we should be able to live and interact together regardless of personal differences. Give everyone the same opportunities for employment and living situations! Frankly, it’s embarrassing this has to come to a vote.

How long can we continue to allow intolerant people to discriminate against a minority group?

“Do they deserve the same basic rights that I have?” This question should never be asked.

Your stance on gay marriage shouldn’t influence how you feel about the fairness amendment.

Ensuring basic rights is something we should be doing automatically, not something that takes years to enact. Civil rights shouldn’t take the backseat to crafty political practices or religious disagreements.

Being LGBT doesn’t affect a person’s skill set or ability to work. There is no need for people or businesses to discriminate based on something that is so personal and unrelated to the workplace.

If you think everyone should be able to hold a job and to earn the roof over his or her head, then let your politicians know. Encourage them to take action right now, because at this very moment someone could be denied a badly needed job or evicted from an apartment.

Politicians should be supporting the rights, not the personal preferences, of the people who they represent. This amendment vote should be unnecessary. But it is happening anyway, so the obvious vote is this: yes.

Valerie Kutchko is a sophomore journalism major. reach her at opinion@ dailynebraskan.com.

‘Avengers’ shows strong women, fails feminist test

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ix superheroes fight to save the Earth from an alien army. In the wrong hands this plot could tank. Just imagine being the director. You (with the help of the screenwriters) have to come up with a way to give six major characters equal screen time. You have to make the characters likable. You have to include all types of people so you don’t offend someone. Oh, and you only have about two hours to accomplish all of these things.

Luckily for “The Avengers,” director Joss Whedon kept any of the six Avengers from being overlooked once they became a group. Whedon is mainly known for his work on the popular TV shows “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Firefly.” Both of these shows featured an array of beloved characters who worked well together on screen. Many of these characters were quite feminist, too. The same is true with “The Avengers.”

Take the first scene with Black Widow as an example. The scene begins with her in seemingly dire straits, but by the end of it she has kicked some major ass.

Widow’s ferocity isn’t surprising when considering Whedon’s tendency to create strong female characters in his projects.

However, Black Widow also represents the film’s greatest flaw because the movie doesn’t pass the Bechdel test.

The test, developed by Alison Bechdel in 1985, only has one requirement: Two females in a film have to talk to each other and their conversation topic can’t be about a man. Given Whedon’s background, this is beyond strange. Yet it’s true.

For starters, Black Widow is the only female Avenger. The comics feature several female Avengers to choose from, like Wasp or She-Hulk. An early script for the film even contained Wasp, who was a founding Avenger. The role was scrapped once Johansson signed up for the role of Black Widow though. As a result, there are really only three women who are given proper screen time (the female S.H.I.E.L.D agents don’t count, people): Black Widow, Agent Maria Hill and Pepper Potts. None of these three women talk to each other throughout the course of the film about

EMME GRAFTON anything. Widow talks to her male teammates, Hill talks to her male boss and Potts talks to her boyfriend.

Despite these points, Britt Hayes, a writer for screencrush.com, argues that “just because a film doesn’t pass the test doesn’t necessarily mean that the film presents women poorly.” After all, Black Widow is a strong character who uses the gender stereotype of female weakness as her strength. When men perceive her as weak, she corrects them. Violently.

Meanwhile, Agent Maria Hill is just as nimble as Black Widow and remains col-

lected even in dangerous situations. There alizes they need Loki’s staff to close the may be only the two of them, but at least portal, and once she acquires the staff she they aren’t two useless heroines screaming does it herself. As Gilbert Cruz of Vulture. in terror as they wait to be saved by the com put it, “looks like Whedon realized men. he needed to give one of the film’s two On a similar note, Vulstrong female characters ture magazine went out lots of talk time.” ... Black and actually timed the enTherefore, even tire film to determine who though “The Avengers” Widow is a got the most screen time, fails the Bechdel test, strong character and Black Widow ended there’s no denying that up in 3rd place. She was it is a step in the right who uses the on screen for more than direction. The movie’s 30 minutes, placing her gender stereotype jam-packed CGI sequencabove Bruce Banner, Thor es provided fun for the of female and Hawkeye. She also whole family, while the got the most unbroken cast of complex superweakness as her dialogue scenes of any of heroes gave moviegoers strength. ” the six. several role models to Black Widow may not look up to. have a conversation with Black Widow helped another female character, but Whedon redefine the role women play in movies doesn’t make her stand in a corner, eiby being the strong Avenger rather than ther. She is the first Avenger to be ina sobbing heroine. What could be more troduced on screen. She has one-on-one super than that?

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Mumford & Sons perform to a sold-out crowd at the Pinewood Bowl Theater in Lincoln on Monday night. The Mumford & Sons show packed the bowl from top to bottom. After a short set from openers Nathaniel Rateliff and Dawes, Mumford & Sons took the stage in front of 5,000 screaming fans. (Above) Marcus Munford and Country Winston Marshall strum through a song. For Rob Knightly, of Omaha, this was the first time he made it to Pioneers Park since 1979. “I first heard Mumford and Sons on the Grammys.” (Top right) Mumford and Sons perform. Knightly said, “My daughter and I both love them.”

Pinewood Bowl was a new venue for many who came to watch Mumford & Sons, Carrie Setlik from Lincoln said she has lived here for 10 years but never knew Pinewood Bowl existed. “I’m glad Nebraska has something like this,” Setlik said, “Outdoor concerts are so much more relaxed and more cool.”(Right) Marcus Mumford and Ben Lovett swoon the crowd during an opening song.

Hip-Hop in Lincoln

Emcee Kid Ink plays hard, works harder Kid Ink spills to the DN on the work ethic that sees him climbing the charts Kekeli Dawes DN Kid Ink is the generously tattooed L.A. emcee visiting the Bourbon Theatre Wednesday. He began as a producer but started rhyming a few years ago and has since worked with Gudda Gudda, Meek Mill, and this summer put out a remix for his single “Time of Your Life” with Tyga and Chris Brown. Kid Ink took some time from his nationwide tour to talk with the Daily Nebraskan.

DN: So how did it all start?

KI: It wasn’t a particular music or record that got me into beatmaking. It wasn’t an inspiration from a particular song or genre. I always appreciated music and got into production because it was around me.

My mom took me to piano classes when I was young, so I had the physical familiarity. Once I was into producing with things like MPCs and samplers, I started making sample beats. I can say the biggest person using samples at that time was Kanye.

DN: What’s your average beat count per day?

KI: On a good day I could make about seven.

DN: What do you use?

KI: I started off on the MPC 2000 and 3000. When the Logic era came out, I put (them) both together. Then I moved more towards Logic, and linked Logic with Reason. So now I use all three. MPC for the drums, Reason for the sound and Logic for everything else. My perfect system.

DN: How long did you produce before you picked up the mic?

KI: I have been producing since I was 16 and I never really stopped to focus on rap until it escalated this past year and a half.

DN: What is your writing process?

KI: I feel like it has grown and changed since I first started. Lately I have tried a more freestyle form, rhyming off the top of the head. It all depends on the record. If it is a record, I have a story or meaning, it might take a little longer to describe so people can understand. Some records you go in and have punchlines.

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Lincoln’s own Scru Face Jean will open for Kid Ink at the Bourbon Theatre this Wednesday night. courtesy photo

Seen above flashing his trademark tattoos, emcee Kid Ink will play the Bourbon Theatre this Wednesday. Kid Ink garnered attention this summer for his work on a remix of “Time of Your LIfe.” DN: Do you feel most people respond well to records full of punchlines as opposed to others?

KI: It’s two different vibes. I think we have to definitely not focus on one more than the other, because people don’t want to hear you do the same thing over and over.

With certain records you want to make sure you can relate to people and still have the catchy aspects that work in the radio and the club.

There are certain records for certain times. That club record doesn’t have to be personal because you don’t want to waste lyrics — no one is listening to what you have to say in the club.

DN: Do you save different kinds of lyrics for your mixtapes or albums?

KI: On “Up & Away” I felt I needed to make more in-depth and more personal records. On mixtapes you can have more fun and test stuff. Mixtapes are like a testing process so you can get a response from people without having to waste marketing money and all that you need to put together records to foresee a possible response.

DN: Are you a prolific studio rat?

KI: Yeah, I’ve always worked inhouse. I have a microphone hooked with my laptop, so I can get access whenever I want and go in. For the

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album I locked myself in the studio for hours to focus more on the writing and freestyling, and putting stuff together.

DN: How do you practice improving your skills as an emcee?

KI: You have to not limit yourself and test yourself, to try things on music you would never do before. You need to keep yourself updated on what’s hot, though. You don’t want to ever fall into your own loop and lose what is going on.

You can’t get stuck while everyone is moving fast, and things move fast these days. There are new artists popping up all the time, and there are new producers and new sounds that develop every six months.

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Scru Face Jean caters to Lincoln fan base kekeli dawes DN Scru Face Jean is a Lincoln native that has been a prominent figure in the local hip hop scene for the past two years, and Wednesday night he will open for Kid Ink’s Bourbon show. Scru Face broke with five albums of material in his debut year, and has released several other mixtapes. He recently sat down with the Daily Nebraskan to discuss the new approach to music he’s decided to take decided to take.

DN: You began officially releasing albums in 2010. How did you get the ball rolling?

SF: I rapped when I was in school because my brother was a known rapper in the city. What made me take it to the next level were my managers Seth and Casey who told me I have the talent to do more than rap for friends, and I need to push myself so my city and the whole world could hear me.

DN: On your latest mixtape you say on a track, “Fuck the

popular kids.” Were you always an outcast, and do you see yourself as one now?

SF: Yeah. The whole outcast mentality resonates with me. When I was in high school, Dragon Ball Z was my favorite thing ever. I wasn’t ever the super-gangster type; I was myself.

People took that in a different way. It was never cool in high school, so when I got into a position where I could make things cool, I decided to speak for the people like me who got bullied.

“Outcasts & Misfits” is not saying “Fuck the popular kids,” or “We aren’t the popular kids so we are mad,” it’s saying, “We don’t have a voice but now we do, so it’s our turn.” What people don’t realize is that a lot of people play that position if you think about it. It’s really just an underdog story.

DN: Do you feel like you are an “underdog” in hip hop because you come from Lincoln?

SF: Definitely. The thing about being in bigger cities is that you do get twice as many

looks because there are twice as many bodies, so in Lincoln it’s hard to get half of the result. At the same time, that hounds you and trains to be the ultimate artist. A lot of people say “If you make it in New York, you can make it anywhere,” but often times if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. There isn’t really a hip hop scene or a lot of people looking for that, but now that we have created one and interest as well, it says a lot.

DN: Do you think the Lincoln audience is responsive when they find hip hop?

SF: What I have noticed about people here is that they really want to hear stories about people from here. There have been rappers before me and other unsuccessful rappers who talk about experiences a lot of people don’t understand, even though they really did live that life. I said forget that. I try to talk about what it means to be a

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Rediscovering the rejected female artist know much about Stevie Nicks, mostly because I don’t. My friend’s 5-year-old daughter knows more about her than I do. But I shouldn’t try to compete with her; that same girl wore a Stevie Nicks shirt to her first day of kindergarten on Monday. I’m doing my best to abstain from any “too cool for school” jokes right now.

But when I examine my musical identity beyond the scope of Fleetwood Mac, my overall preferences become apparent. Sure, a majority of my iTunes library consists of folk music and pretty much anything that is just a total downer. But I also shy away from female musicians, and at an alarming rate.

Stevie Nicks isn’t the story; she’s just the beginning.

It’s not that I don’t have a solid foundation. Growing up, music ran my household, and I am well aware that my dad, probably unbeknownst to him, went through a huge Sarah McLachlan phase in the ‘90s. I, however, did not.

My obscured bias became especially apparent when I saw how I treated female musicians. For some reason, whether it be personal or something society thrust upon me, many women with an instrument make me uncomfortable. And there’s proof. Last fall,

THE GIRL IS MIC’D

times deeper than any Pitchfork writer. Also, you’re in for a long semester.

Before that night, Stevie Nicks was just a poorly formed memory of “Edge of Seventeen.” To be exact, Stevie was synonymous with an image of a drunken Joan Cusack whipping around a beer and spitting in Jack Black’s face. That was also the movie where they made a bunch of 18-year-olds pretend to be in grade school and miraculously become seasoned performers overnight, so I should have seen it wasn’t accurate from the start.

Before that long drive, I had heard of Fleetwood Mac, but that was about it. I had heard their music before, but couldn’t tell you it was them. For a while, I thought it was a guy named Fleetwood Mac; now that I know that Mick Fleetwood is a real person, it really doesn’t feel that far fetched.

Even now, after some extreme Google research, I don’t claim to

katie fennelly A columnist vows to find and appreciate female musicians fully for the first time It all started with Stevie Nicks.

Correction: Like most good things, it started with a dreary late-night drive home. Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” came on the radio, a song I had probably heard dozens of times before, but that was the first night I actually heard it, if you know what I mean. If for some reason you don’t know what I mean, it’s that moment the music actually ‘clicks,’ where you feel you have an understanding 10

“...Stevie (NIcks) was synonymous with ... a drunken Joan Cusack whipping around a beer and spitting in Jack Black’s face.”

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on her fleetwood mac education

I reviewed a dozen albums or so.

Many featured female musicians.

Many of those were all-around solid albums. I rated them highly.

But when it came time to compile my top five albums from the semester, a whopping zero percent of the bands that made my list had a female musician.

But the problem extends beyond me. Earlier this year, Rolling Stone made a point to revise its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The first album to feature a female musician was The Velvet Underground and Nico’s appropriately titled “The Velvet Underground,” which came in at No. 13.

To be fair, the list was extremely biased toward The Beatles (and probably rightly so.) “The Velvet Underground” was absolutely a great pick, but the notion that no woman was able to break the top 10 is alarming.

Women, it appears as though the odds are against us. For every strong female figure that has

infiltrated today’s music culture, there are 10 men joking about violence against or the harassment of women. But it isn’t just rap or heavier music, it’s those bearded hipsters, too. If a woman decides to pick an acoustic guitar and sing a song about anything remotely sad, she’s considered weak. If a man does the same thing, he wins a Grammy, has blogs devoted to his beard and blows up Twitter as “Bonny Bear.”

The fact is, there are plenty of fantastic, culture-changing women musicians out there. But for some reason, they don’t receive the same recognition as their male counterparts.

As a woman, you’d think I’d know a thing or two about these things. But I don’t. So I’m taking it upon myself to make sure that this semester it’s going to be the women — not the men — that take center stage. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

‘Hot Cakes’ revisits glam rock sounds that changed the world and it is only fitting to compare the music of today with the influential vibrations 20 years past.

Fresh as a newborn in the modern music world is the Aug. 20, 2012, release “Hot Cakes” from British rock band The Darkness. Of course the reverberated, distorted guitar and falsetto vocal style, which rock ‘n’ roll fans truly appreciate the band for, is a throwback to a bygone musical era.

In fact, this style enjoyed its golden era, especially on MTV, during the mid to late 1980s and up until grunge put a stop to it.

No offense, Satan worshipers, but thank heavens.

Seriously, the excessive glitter and bright colors needed to stop.

It was getting too silly for its own good. However, because it did fall out of the mainstream, music fans may now justifiably appreciate glam metal in the enjoyable kinky, kitschy form brought to us by The Darkness.

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joe wade More and more, modern music seems to be influenced by MTV classics The echo of Woodstock encapsulated by music videos on television screens and recorded on analog tapes: This was Generation X. The youth of 1992, raised by the subliminal flicker of paid advertisements, habitually changed

the station to MTV as soon as their parents went to work.

MTV launched Aug. 1, 1981, with the original intention of broadcasting music videos every day and night. Yes, MTV really had music videos once upon a time. In the early 1990s, this was our YouTube. No, you couldn’t watch it on a cellphone. Ye gods, cellphones then were practically the size of car batteries and the only way to ‘text’ someone was to call their pager.

But 1992 was a year when things started to change. Music in popular American culture was continuing its evolution to what we listen to today. This was music

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One of the most memorable seems to be back in the groove with the original lineup. In consongs of that era’s popular metal scene is “Cherry Pie” by the trast to the 1992 scene, metal is band Warrant, released in 1990. gaining popularity again, while The band’s third album “Dog Eat during Warrant’s day it was in decline. Like most things, music Dog” was released Aug. 25, 1992, is continually in a cycle of repetialmost 20 years to the day of the tion. The raw, visceral quality of new release by The Darkness.

Landing in the charts from the style is a welcome sound among “Dog Eat Dog” was the single the over produced bubble-gum pop we have groaningly grown ac“Machine Gun,” which earned customed to in recent culture. the No. 36 position for the mainI, for one, am not stream metal going to hold my category in breath hoping for Billboard. ...the a full resurgence of Despite the reverberated, what some regard as success of better music, but I will “Cherry Pie,” distorted guitar admit that 2012 has Warrant fans and falsetto been a much-needed, consider the banner year for the 1992 album vocal style...s a genre. to be one of throwback to a In habitual fashthe best reion, the industry is leases from bygone musical still tediously pumpthe band. Just era.” ing out new records, like the new which have little release from Joe Wade shelf value without The Darkon The Darkness the current popular ness, the long artists taking the time hair, power to craft Stendhal Synballads, sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll prestige drome-inducing art.

In 1992 when the song “Smells was what metal fans wanted, AlLike Teen Spirit” by Nirvana though Warrant is still playing gained popularity on MTV, everyshows and making music today, thing changed. the glory days of “Cherry Pie” We no longer felt “Cherry and “Machine Gun” are over. By Pie.” We were doomed and we 1993 they were suffering changes in lineup, as well as fading popu- knew it.

The season of love and sexual larity in mainstream music.

One of the major changes in revolution was over. Cynicism lineup was Jani Lane, who was and fear defined the new musical climate. After all it was a mathe lead singer. His temporary deterial world, sold with sales tax. parture was right after the tour for Creative forces and feelings of “Dog Eat Dog,” but he returned in 1994. However by time he re- despair were abundant. Those same feelings still reverberate joined, Columbia had dropped today and once in a while, those the band from their label. Lane left again in 2004, but briefly re- waves crash upon the beaches of turned in 2008. Upsetting the consciousness bringing with it course for the current future of something to appreciate.

While Warrant will always the band, it was announced on be enjoyable, be thankful for The Aug. 11 of last year that Lane had Darkness. 2012 wins this round. passed away. joe wade is a junior The Darkness has suffered its Latchkey kid. Reach him at own share of issues since their Arts@ debut in the early 2000s, but with dailynebraskan.com. their new third release, the band

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Despite the recession, be glad music has The Darkness back. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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The intergalactic glam rockers have landed once again and are embarking on a campaign to earn incendiary greatness. The Darkness, best known for dispatching a terrifying space architeuthis by blasting it with beams of energy from their guitars, will release their new album “Hot Cakes” Aug. 28.

Okay, they are not really from space and are actually from just across the pond. Also, the giant squid-thing was just a music video gimmick. But their guitars really do shoot beams of energy aimed straight into listeners’ ears, creating a sense of rock ‘n’ roll euphoria.

Since their departure from the music scene in 2006 due to personal issues, side projects and some musical dif-

ferences, respectively, it seems that the time away served them well.

This long-awaited third album possesses exactly the rawness and electrifying catchy goodness fans have been hoping for.

The album sets its pace, as well as the overall mood, in the first track, “Every Inch of You,” by lifting off with familiar falsetto, heavy metal riffs and cheeky lyrics. This song serves as a kinky introduction before getting to the meat. Beginning the second song, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” is a sound clip from the 1980s B-movie “Hawk the Slayer”: “I am no messenger but I will give you a message, the message of death.”

Possibly it is the death of a bad relationship as the album often alludes to that lyrical image. Some innuendo to that effect can also be taken from the title of the song “She Just A Girl, Eddie,” which indeed offers some sage advice. Robert Pattinson, this is your song.

“Hot Cakes” in its entirety is not so much fresh as it is refreshingly familiar. At certain moments songs are vaguely Radiohead-ish but this

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DN: It’s been a while since the DN last spoke to you. What has changed for you since 2011?

SF: Things have changed. After I recorded my first CD, I told myself I wouldn’t go back to the booth until I lived more life.

I used to live in my studio and

record all the time, and I started feeling like I was creating because I had to, not because I wanted to.

So I took a break from the studio and let a lot of things happen to me, and now I’m back in the studio and some of the tracks I have are blowing my mind. Some artists make music to make it, without putting themselves into their

music; a lot of people have got it backwards. arts@ dailynebraskan.com

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DN: Do you feel you have to keep adjusting your sound to appeal to the masses?

KI: It just depends on what market you are trying to touch. Personally, I never want to limit myself. I want to try new things and hit every market, but still make sure everything (lyrically) stays the same and doesn’t go against everything I am talking about. This isn’t the same for how the music sounds, because I don’t want to go completely leftfield with music. I just feel if the subject matter is the same, you can’t be too lost. No matter what the record is, I personally try to keep the content and lyricism on point.

DN: Is there a message you feel isn’t being expressed right now in popular music?

KI: Music has been changing lately and the radio has been catching new sounds ... I don’t hear much personal subject matter on the radio.

Hip hop is in a good place right now.

Of course there are songs that could be played on the radio in place of other records, but I don’t think there really isn’t any message that hasn’t been touched. And you have artists like B.O.B who are still putting posi-

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HUSKERS TO WATCH >> offensive

TAYLOR MARTINEZ, QUARTERBACK

OFFENSIVE PLAYERS TO WATCH KENNY BELL, WIDE RECEIVER

JAMAL TURNER, WIDE RECEIVER

KENNY BELL, WIDE RECEIVER

AMEER ABDULLAH, RUNNING BACK/RETURN MAN

Bell, a sophomore, is the top returning receiver for the Huskers and arguably one of the top wideouts in the Big Ten. He provides Nebraska with a deep threat should they need one. His speed is among the best on the team. Bell’s potential is high, but he did have trouble holding onto the ball last season, evidenced by a few costly drops. In just his second year, 2012 could be a huge season for the Boulder, Colo., native.

TAYLOR MARTINEZ, QUARTERBACK be the focal point of the offense,

Martinez will and his play will determine how productive the unit can be in coordinator Tim Beck’s second year in command. Last season he made significant improvements in the passing game but took a step back as a runner.

Fully recovered from the ankle injuries that plagued him the last few seasons, he should be back to his old self with the ball in his hands. Nebraska needs him to make another jump in the passing game though, if it is to reach its full potential. Martinez has had a busy offseason working with a quarterback’s coach and attending camps.

KYLER REED, TIGHT END

JAMAL TURNER, WIDE RECEIVER

Bell, a sophomore, is the top returning receiver for the Huskers and arguably one of the top wideouts in the Big Ten. He provides Nebraska with a deep threat should they need one. His speed is among the best on the team. Bell’s potential is high, but he did have trouble holding onto the ball last season, evidenced by a few costly drops. In just his second year, 2012 could be a huge season for the Boulder, Colo., native.

KYLER REED, TIGHT END

Turner is still a mystery. The Huskers’ leading receiver through the early portion of the schedule last year was benched in favor of others midway through. His electric play in the 2011 spring game is evidence his potential, so look him to makeWith a push at startTurner isofstill a mystery.

Thefor Huskers’ the offseason departure of ing this year opposite Bell. He will face competition from junior leading receiver through the early I-back Aaron Quincy Enunwa and senior Tim Marlowe but should be the one Green, Abdullah has an of the schedule last year needs toincreased role in the offense this on portion the field more than those two.

Nebraska use his explosive speed and athleticism year for a few big plays.

He As could was benched in favorthis of others season.

Rex Burkhead’s top be an unexpected source of offense for this team.

Reed is poised for a great season as the Huskers’ top receiving tight end. He returns for his final season as half of a strong tandem at the position with fellow senior Ben Cotton. Reed’s production inexplicably took a hit last season as he was unable to break free down the seem as often as he did in 2010. Still, Reed presents a major mismatch when he is covered by a linebacker because of his speed and quickness through the middle of the field. Look for the Huskers to get to him more season.

He is a for weapon Reed is poised a great season as Martinez will be theback focal point of often this that can’t be used enough.

the Huskers’ top receiving tight end. the offense, and his play will He returns for his final season as half determine how productive the unit can be in coordinator Tim Beck’s of a strong tandem at the position AMEER ABDULLAH, with fellow senior Ben Cotton. midway through. His electric play in backup he will be called on to spell second year in command. Last RUNNING BACK/RETURN MAN Reed’s production inexplicably took the 2011 spring game is evidence of the Husker star periodically, and his season he made significant a hit last season as he was unable to his potential, so look for him to play in those situations will be improvements in the passing game With the offseason departure of I-back Aaron Green, Abdullah break free down the seem as often make a push at starting this year crucial. We have already seen but took a step back as a runner. has an increased role in the offense this season. As Rex Burkhead’s Abdullah shine in a special teamshe will beFully recovered from the ankle opposite Bell. He will face competitop backup called on to spell the Husker star periodi- as he did in 2010. Still, Reed cally, andtohis play in injuries those situations will be him crucial. have al- presents a major mismatch when he role, but now it’s time for him add that plagued theWe last tion from junior Quincy Enunwa ready seen Abdullah shine in a special teams role, but now it’s time a significant contribution to the few seasons, he should be back to for a is covered by a linebacker because and senior Tim Marlowe but should DAIMION STAFFORD, SAFETY for him to add a significant contribution to the offense.

Look breakout season fromhis thisold guy.self with the ball in his hands. of his speed and quickness through offense. Look for a breakout season be the one on the field more than the middle of the field. Look for the from this guy.

Nebraska needs him to make those two. Nebraska needs to use Huskers to get back to him more his strong explosive speed athleticism another jump in the passing game Every defense needsand a commander.

For Nebraska, Stafford isthis that year guy. The junior college often this season. He is a weapon though, if it is to reach its full for aformer few big plays.

Heplayer had a difficult time grasping the defensive scheme last season, but used his raw that can’t be TACKLE used enough. potential. Martinez has had a busy couldability be antounexpected source of Now, with anplaymaking terrorize opposing offenses.

CHASE ROME, DEFENSIVE other year underfor NUthis coach Bo Pelini’s system, Stafford feels more offense team. offseason working with a comfortable and is more aware on the field, creating the potential quarterback’s coach and attending for a monster year. From the safety spot, Stafford can be an encamps. forcer, cutting plays well short of where they would end up last

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season. He also showed at times that he can be a ball hawk, swatting down jump balls and coming away with the occasional interception. That instinct should get him far in 2012.

MOHAMMED SEISAY, CORNERBACK

Seisay contributed right away, starting games as a freshman at Memphis. He could do the same in his first game with the Huskers after spending a spring with the team. The junior college transfer could wind up being Nebraska’s top starter by the time the season ends, as his size and nose for the ball are very promising indicators of what Seisay could become.

The Huskers need help on the defensive line. After another season of struggling to defend mobile quarterbacks, the Blackshirts need a playmaker on the defensive line, someone who can get at a quarterback and collapse the pocket. As it stands, signal callers like Denard Robinson and Braxton Miller are having too much time to work with, and are finding rushing lanes when they don’t find open receivers.

Rome is the kind of guy that could blossom into that playmaker. His explosiveness and raw strength can command attention from offensive lines. If Rome can start hot, offenses will throw extra blocks his way, freeing up teammates to swoop in and make plays.

ZAIRE ANDERSON, LINEBACKER Anderson is drawing a lot of comparisons to Lavonte David. The linebacker who, like David, begins his Husker career as a junior college transfer, and is expected to fight for the starting linebacker role currently held by Alonzo Whaley. Anderson was the top ranked junior college linebacker in the 2012 recruiting class after finishing 2011 with 95 tackles, including 19 tackles for loss, 6.5 sacks, two forced fumbles, enough to merit JC Gridwire All-American honors. Anderson’s potential alone will be enough to get him on the field early for the Huskers. If Anderson can perform as well as David or Stafford did early in their post-junior college careers, then Anderson could transform into a playmaker for the Huskers right away.

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The Blackshirts are still recovering from the loss of Lavonte David. With the top linebacker graduated, somebody needs to fill his shoes. All signs point to Will Compton. Compton came on late last season, including a 13-tackle game against Penn State, making him the returning tackler on the Nebraska defense.

He will need to show that he can be more consistent and more versatile if he is to succeed in filling the leadership role David left behind.

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Nebraska’s squad seeks big games from ‘inseparable’ seniors in 2012 NU veterans lead Huskers toward lofty goals in Big Ten and non-conference play

“This is our last shot to go get our dream.

That’s what we are striving for and what we are looking for on a daily basis is to get that national championship.

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Lincoln native Caroline Flynn leads the Huskers with eight shots as they start 2012 without former All-American Morgan Marlborough.

Flynn filling holes for depleted NU in nonconference play Nebraska soccer has nine freshmen this season featuring defender Flynn Angela Hensel DN Take a look at the Nebraska women’s soccer roster this season. It looks a lot different from last year ’s.

With nine freshmen and more than half of the team made up of underclassmen, the Huskers underwent a lot of rebuilding during the summer months.

For the Huskers, the new faces are probably a good thing.

With a subpar showing in the Big Ten last season and the loss of All-American Morgan Marlborough, Nebraska will be looking for some new energy.

While Nebraska searches for some of its young players to step up right away, the newest members of the Huskers’ roster also want to be a strong presence on the team.

One of those leading the way is freshman Caroline Flynn. The defender from Lincoln has yet to score a goal, but she has led the Huskers in shots on goal for both of NU’s games this season: losses to Oklahoma and Drake.

Although she is just a freshman, Flynn has been ready to be part of the Nebraska lineup for quite a while. Flynn decided to skip her senior season at Lincoln Southwest High School so she could practice with the Huskers in the spring of last year.

“I want to be one of the hardest workers out there but also be a team player,” Flynn said.

Perhaps one of the hardest parts of having such a young roster is communication.

But with five of the nine incoming freshmen having competed together for the Toro

Soccer Club out of Omaha, the newest members of the Huskers are familiar with each other.

Along with Flynn and the rest of the large freshman class, the Huskers will be looking to the sophomore class for leadership. Midfielder Caroline Gray is a returning starter, and forward Mayme Conroy scored the Huskers’ lone goal this season against Oklahoma.

With this many new starters, Nebraska will be looking for them to bring some energy and enthusiasm to the roster. This is particularly needed in the first half, which was shown against Drake on Sunday.

“The first half didn’t go so well,” NU soccer coach John Walker said. “I thought we played a lot better the second half.”

In both of the Huskers’ games this season, they have managed only four shots on goal in the first half while coming back with nine in the second half. While they are looking for this kind of improvement, they want to see it earlier in the game.

“We need to make sure our offense gets going,” Flynn said.

“We want to stay connected throughout the game, and continue hard work from across the board at all times.”

Walker also wants to see the Huskers get at it early in the action.

“The longer you leave the other team in the game the more they believe that they can win,” Walker said.

Although the rebuilding process might take a while for the Huskers, once they get the problems worked out, they are confident that they can compete with the best of them.

“For starters, we need lots of communication. We need to be ready to work hard,” Flynn said. “But we are capable of being a really good team.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Nebraska senior setter Lauren Cook gets emotional when talking about the relationships she formed throughout her volleyball career. She says the game connected her with her best friend, fellow Husker senior and defensive specialist, Paige Hubl.

“We are inseparable,” Cook said. “We are best friends. Everyone always gives us a hard time, but I’ve known her forever, and it’s really fun to be able to experience this game with someone that you are so close to.”

The five-member Nebraska senior class is the heart and soul of this year ’s team according to Lauren’s father, coach John Cook, and much of their influence is drawn from a closeness built on and off the court that motivates them to succeed.

“They have a lot of experience,” the coach said. “They’ve been through the works. From a leadership position they know what it takes, and they want to go out on a great note. They are very, very inspired to do that.”

Three of the Husker seniors graduated from Nebraska high schools and knew each other from prep competition before signing on at the school. Lauren Cook said their familiarity makes the senior class even more cohesive.

“I’ve known Gina (Mancuso) and Paige for a long time,” she said. “I think we have meshed really well. We hang out outside of volleyball, and I feel like we are all really good friends.

We have a great time with each other.”

Not all teams get along well outside of competition, but the Husker volleyball team does not appear to have that problem.

Gina Mancuso husker senior

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Senior setter Lauren Cook serves during Nebraska’s Red-White game on Saturday. Cook and company are looking to lead the No. 4 Huskers to a national title game this season.

According to Mancuso, what they have is a combination of players that know each other so well they can operate as a unit.

“I think we just all know

what to expect from each other and we trust each other,” she said. “It carries over onto the court, and we are able to play with a lot of trust.”

In their last collegiate season together, this class has already accomplished a lot (including championships in both the Big 12 and Big Ten conferences), but has yet to reach the ultimate goal.

They are not shy about what the intentions are for this season.

“This is our last shot to go get our dream,” Mancuso said.

“That’s what we are striving for and what we are looking for on a daily basis is to get that national championship. We are setting our goals high and not having any doubt.”

Lauren Cook laid out the plan.

“The goal is to win the three seasons,” she said. “Win all your games in preseason, win all your games in the Big Ten and the Big Ten championship, and then win all your games in the postseason for a national championship.”

If the Huskers are able to run that gauntlet, it’s going to take a heavy dose of leadership from the upperclassmen. The Huskers added six freshman to the roster for this season, and the seniors will be key in aiding their development, coach Cook said.

Junior Morgan Broekhuis echoed the coach’s sentiment on the importance of senior leadership.

“They’re leaders out there that take charge in any way they can,” she said. “They are a group that means a lot to our team.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Getting the Former Husker Jordan Burroughs captured Olympic gold in London with assistance of NU coach Mark Manning

Story by Zach Tegler

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en seconds separated Jordan Burroughs from a gold medal.

Representing the United States in his first Olympics, the former Nebraska wrestler had already won the first of a possible three periods in the gold-medal match and scored a takedown late in the second period.

Now all Burroughs had to do was avert the last-stitch effort of his Iranian opponent, Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi.

Goudarzi lunges at his legs three times, but Burroughs pushes him away. Before time runs all the way down, Burroughs begins shuffling off the mat in celebration.

Referee Karri Tapio Toivola blows his whistle to end the match.

Jordan Burroughs had won Olympic gold.

Aug. 10 in London was not the first time Burroughs had his hand raised at the end of a championship match; he entered the 2012 Summer Olympics with three Big 12 Championships, two NCAA Championships and a World Championship in addition to six other national and international titles.

But his prior accomplishments did nothing to diminish the achievement of his ultimate goal.

“It was a great experience. It was relieving,” Burroughs said. “I had worked for that moment for a very long time, so to finally accomplish the goal that I worked hard to get was pretty cool.”

The path to becoming an Olympic champion was not always an easy one. At the beginning of his senior season at Nebraska in 2009, Burroughs suffered an injury to his left knee that ended his year and led to a medical redshirt.

“He had a lot of obstacles,” Nebraska wrestling coach Mark Manning said. Manning was not only Burroughs’ coach from 2006-2011 at NU, but also tutored the 24-year-old New Jersey native at the London Olympics.

“It’s what you dream of as a coach, for them to grow and develop as a person,” Manning said.

“I saw him grow a lot more the last six years.”

In his freshman season with the Huskers, Burroughs compiled a record of 16-13 and was eliminated in the early rounds of the NCAA Tournament. But in the spring of 2008, he broke through with his first conference title and a third-place finish at the NCAAs to garner AllAmerican status.

As a junior, Burroughs went undefeated en route to a conference title, a national championship and All-American honors at 157 pounds. A year after he sat out a season with a hurt knee, he ended his college career with the same set of accomplishments at 165 pounds.

Later in 2011, Burroughs made his first splash on an international stage, winning the 74 kilogram (163 pounds) World Championship after defeating Goudarzi in the title match.

But that was just a stepping stone for Burroughs.

“Not a lot of people knew about the World Championships, but everyone knows about the Olympics,” he said. “It’s once every four years, it’s an extremely prestigious event and to represent the United States is an awesome experience.

It’s something that very few people get to experience in their lifetime.”

Barely more than ten months after the Worlds, Burroughs rode a winning streak of 70 matches (including both international and NCAA victories) and a tidal wave of confidence into the 2012 Olympic Games.

“My expectation is definitely to win gold,” Burroughs said before the Olympics. “I’m extremely confident. My goal is always to win first place.”

Burroughs followed an easy first-round victory in London with two nail-biters, one against Canadian Matthew Gentry and a three-period win against two-time world champion Denis Tsargush of Russia. Before even reaching the medal

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While at Nebraska, Jordan Burroughs captured three Big 12 titles and two NCAA championships. He hopes to continue his success and capture gold at the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janiero.

To represent the United States is an awesome experience. It’s something that very few people get to experience in their lifetime.”

JOrdan Burroughs olympic gold medalist

round, Burroughs had proven his worth on the world’s biggest stage.

“He really handled it well and kept his composure in big matches,” Manning said. “He came through like a champ.”

Entering the gold-medal match against an opponent he had already beaten twice, Burroughs knew exactly what he needed to do to capture first place.

“My confidence level – it definitely helped ... in my victory,” he said. “The confidence level helps me to win and it’s a big factor in my career.”

That self-reliance showed when Burroughs scored the only points of the match with less than 15 seconds remaining in each of the first two periods.

Manning said Burroughs’ self-confidence is

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Former Husker standout Jordan Burroughs has now won all of his last 74 matches after capturing gold at the London Olympics earlier this month.

Compton looks to fill void at linebacker for Huskers With Lavonte David in the NFL, Will Compton has big shoes to fill for NU Lanny Holstein DN Will Compton’s career as a Nebraska football player has been quite a ride.

The senior linebacker played in two conferences, for two defensive coordinators and with numerous NFL-caliber players.

He has been a part of a top-rated defense and played alongside the Nebraska single-season tackles leader, LaVonte David. His accomplishments include all-Big 12 freshman honors as well academic all-conference in both the Big 12 and Big Ten, and he still has a season left.

When he looks back on what he’s accomplished, Compton can’t help but marvel at the events of the past three years.

“Heck, who is going to leave here and say they played against Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, (Kansas) State and all those venues,” he said. “We got to do it in two conferences, and if we are able

to come out on top in the Big Ten championship, we will be able to say we’ve played in both the Big 12 and Big Ten championship games.”

Compton takes great pride in being a part of NU coach Bo Pelini’s first recruiting class at Nebraska. He has a strong bond with the rest of the guys in his class and says he wouldn’t change a thing about playing with them.

“We’ve been here with coach Bo since day one,” he said. “This will be our fifth year and we’re much looking forward to having this last year. It’s been a good run with those guys.”

Being a part of Nebraska’s switch to the Big Ten, Compton gets asked a lot about the differences in the two leagues and what it’s been like to make the transition. And he’s happy to answer because he’s had serious playing time in the Big 12 and Big Ten. “We ran a lot more linebackerheavy sets (against Big Ten opponents),” he said. “They run the ball a lot more and you’re in a lot more running situations. Our personnel actually fit better with the Big Ten compared to the Big 12 last year.

“A few years ago we had some talented secondary guys, some hybrids who could play inside the box against Big 12 teams, and this past year we had a bit more linebacker

depth, so we played more linebackers. That’s the transition we made last season.”

This year Compton takes on the role of defensive leader. David, the unquestioned leader of last year’s defense, is gone and Compton knows the role is his to step into.

“I’m going to embrace it, and I’m going to work with the other leadership on the defense,” he said.

“We have a lot of leadership on the team, especially defensively, and I’m excited to play with those seniors.”

Compton’s leadership might be a little different than David’s a season ago. The senior brings a little more laughter.

“You see he has a lot of personality,” Pelini said of Compton. “I hear a lot of people commenting on Will’s personality. He’s a fun guy.”

Compton says the key is to know when to use the humor and when to get serious.

“It just depends on the situation, the timing of everything,” he said. “I think there is a time and place for everything. I’m having fun with this experience and environment. I like to have fun when the time is right. There’s a time to be focused and a time to be serious, and I think I handle myself well in that.” sports@ dailynebraskan.com

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Linebacker Will Compton managed 82 tackles in 2012 while starting 11 games for the Blackshirts defense he’s leading in 2012.